Beware of parking lots

[57AGIN]

Took my 57 to one of my physical therapy (knees) appointments, at the request of the PT staff.  Then went to lunch later down at the beach.  When I was cleaning the car up for a show last Friday, I found some blue paint flecks on my wipe down cloth and discovered my 57 had been hit.  When I got the car out into the sunlight I found the rear bumper on the right side had been banged and scraped hard enough to punch it into the right rear quarter panel and spring back out (but still bent in some).  Bummer!
Insurance company has already seen the photos and approved the necessary work to repair the car, including r & r the right rear upholstery (to gain access to the bolted on right side stainless trim).  Santini gets the car tomorrow, and it should be ready within two weeks.  Insurance will pony up the $3,500 to fix the hit & run damage.  Until this happened, I was pretty free with driving and taking the 57 where ever I felt like going.  I guess now I'll be more protective.  It sure does tick me off that the idiot who hit me didn't have the consideration to let me know they had hit me or to be careful near a classic.

Bob
57 AGIN

[Ford Blue blood]

That is too bad!  I always park as far away from the door of the establishment I am visiting just to avoid that kind of thing.  Works for the most part, don't mind the walk....but....my new 2010 F150 (driven from the dealers to the Winn Dixie) in the middle of the furthest part of the lot was hit in the fender well.  Left a big white mark on the tire and a small rub on the paint. 

Have to wonder what the heck is going on in the pee brain of those folks?

[rmk57]

Is there any security cameras that may have caught it?

That was a pretty good hit, must have rocked the car quite a bit in a parking lot.

Hate it when stuff like that happens.

[electricalan]

The nerve of some peoples kids.Ya the ding is bad enough,but letting you know and giving an appology would sure nice.Glad to hear your insurance company is treating you right.

[hiball3985]

That really sucks. Unfortunately we have so many people who don't care, a younger generation with the attitude of the rest of the world is here for my benefit or are illegal with no license or insurance. Have you noticed that hit and runs seem to be on the rise lately or maybe the news is just covering more of them..

off my soapbox

[RICH MUISE]

Everything they said x2
Rich

[hotroddonnie]

That sucks Bob, nothing worse then someone violating your space and contaminating your life with their ignorance. HRD

[Zapato]

Its not just kids that do this, lack of accountability knows no age boundaries.

Zap-

[57 Ford Kustom]

Amen Zap!
Tim

[jdlafayette]

I hate seeing that. Lots of guys go on about daily drivers and drive the wheels off it but so many drivers out there are careless and don't care.

[Frankenstein57]

The trouble with doing a nice paint job is parking it by idiots who don't respect it.

[Ecode70D]

I don't make a habit of parking my cars in places like that if I can help it.
Have you ever noticed that no matter  how far we park away from other vehicles, and how far we walk, someone just has to park a piece of junk right next to our cars? 

[Jeff Norwell]

So sorry Bob.I have been in Home depot parking lots and seen so many clunk into a car,look around and simply drive off.Pisses me right off.

[suede57ford]

My black sedan got rear-ended in a drive thru saturday morning.  The edlerly lady behind me wasn't paying attention and rammed me.  It did bent the bumper a little and pushed it out of alignment.   I got all here info, but I today I decided not to turn in a claim against her insurance. When I got out of my car after the hit, I realized that she looked like she has had a rough enough time in life and I would rather not hurt her insurance over something I can live with considering how blessed I am in comparison.

[Zapato]

wife's car was tapped in the rear by a little old lady (many years ago) we wanted to just take care of it but her 60+ year old son came over and begged us to file and he would cover any out of pocket expenses we incurred. seems this was the 4th accident in the last year and they were trying to get her to stop driving. poor old gal could barely see and was really shook up at the scene, cops cited her there. wife's car was big and red and she didn't see it. to this day we think she blacked out and just drove into us.

Zap-